Orchid Seed

You rarely set out to get these. They come along when you pick wild orchids, as the seed's own text says, so most players find a couple in their inventory after a walk and wonder whether to bother.

The rule is simple: never give a flower a slot your food or cloth needs. A small planter box holds three seeds, and every slot holding an orchid is a slot that feeds nobody. If the box is already full of hemp or potatoes, the orchid waits.

It can grow elsewhere, though. A seed takes in plain ground, and for a plant whose only job is to look nice, a patch of dirt by your doorway does fine. You give up the bigger harvest a watered planter brings, and with an orchid that costs you nothing at all.

If one of them comes up sturdy, a clone of it saves you looking for seeds next time. The orchid you pick at the end is the same smells-nice flower as a wild one.